Russian soldier's rampage in Crimea and fresh attacks mark latest Ukraine war violence

A Russian soldier went on a shooting spree in Russian-occupied Crimea, killing one fellow serviceman and wounding another before turning his weapon on civilians, leaving three dead and three injured. The Moscow-appointed governor of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhayev, said the soldier was detained. He described the incident as a tragedy and said an investigation was underway. The peninsula, illegally annexed by Russia in 2014, has faced repeated Ukrainian strikes aimed at disrupting Russian supply lines and energy infrastructure.

In the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, an overnight Russian ballistic missile attack killed one person and injured 12, causing severe damage across several districts. Mayor Vitali Klitschko reported that a warehouse near the city centre was destroyed and two people were rescued from under the rubble, with the possibility of more trapped. The attack also caused an ammonia leak that emergency crews were working to contain.

Meanwhile, Ukrainian drones hit multiple warehouses across Russia, including distribution centres of the online retailer Wildberries. A site near St Petersburg caught fire without casualties, while another in the Tver region was damaged. In the Moscow region, a drone strike on the town of Chekhov sparked a blaze that killed five people. A Wildberries warehouse near Krasny Bor was also damaged, wounding one person, and a Lenta distribution centre in the Leningrad region caught fire after a drone fell on it, causing one injury.

Ukraine accused Russia of a war crime after a video emerged showing a Russian drone chasing a street vendor in Kherson and exploding. The man, in his 50s, survived by hiding under a vehicle but sustained shrapnel injuries and shock. President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the footage illustrated what he called Russian 'drone safaris' against civilians and urged international action to push Russia toward peace. Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha called it a deliberate attempt to terrorise the population and demanded justice, noting that countless similar incidents never receive attention.

Elsewhere, two children and an elderly woman died in Russian guided bomb strikes on the northern city of Sumy, according to regional governor Oleh Hryhorov. Russia, for its part, claimed seven people, including three children, were killed and 60 wounded at the Black Sea resort of Gelendzhik by a Ukrainian drone. A Ukrainian official responded that the drone was shot down by Russian air defences and said Ukraine only targets military and economic infrastructure.

In Kyiv, hundreds gathered to honour Vitalina Yarovenko, a university student who was killed while helping wounded survivors of a previous Russian attack. At her mother's request, she received a funeral procession typically reserved for fallen soldiers. The event highlighted Russia's repeated use of the 'double tap' tactic, in which two consecutive missiles strike the same location to target rescue workers.